Comments about ‘The winners and the losers’

Funny part about this is that those students who complain about being saddled
with too much debt spent too much money on toys and living beyond their means,
rather than living within their means and focusing on the tasks at hand. How
about those 67% to 78% who didn't complain about their debt? Sounds to me
like we spend so much time worrying about the whiners that we don't
congratulate those who do take care of their business.

College is not for everyone. It is an industry like any other and as such seeks
to increase market share or grow. In the quest to grow it recruits customers
who are not emotionally or intellectually qualified for college level courses.
The college then either dumbs down the course(s) or demands remedial work - at
an extra charge from the customer. It facilitates the customer to assume more
debt, which it doesn't really care about because the college is in the
business of making money, the source of which is not their concern.

Colleges are not all bad, they are a business, not a charity. Legislators
confuse college with an education. They are lobbied by colleges to promote
their, the colleges, agenda. Colleges and their minions look down on manual or
skilled labor. It is the skilled craftsman who builds the ivory tower upon
which the elite smugly observe the laboring masses toiling, when in actaulity
many cannot perform the minor repairs that many "un-colleged" do all the
time.

Beware Greek lettered administrators bearing "gifts" of
loans for a degree you don't need to impress people you don't know.